We keep passing along our fiscal garbage

The trillions of dollars of government spending we are cheering are going to have to be repaid at some point in the future. With our encouragement, our politicians love throwing money at problems, and have mastered the art of pushing any reckoning out into the future farther and farther.

Just as with the environment, most current adults will be dead before the consequences of our present actions are fully known, but why does the planet's health get so much more attention than our fiscal health? If our grandchildren are living in squalor and poverty in the future, the fact the air and water are clean will have little meaning. The fact that previous generations had great medical care will have little meaning.

If the government had borrowed trillions of dollars and passed it out in 1930, they probably would have prevented the Depression, but we may not have had enough borrowing capacity left to win World War II.

At some point we have to realize that the fiscal future is maybe just as important as the environment's future. Sometimes, I think that people and politicians are just not educated enough to understand that our grandchildren inheriting our fiscal garbage is just as bad if not worse than inheriting our environmental garbage.

John Behof

Kildeer